{"id":938,"date":"2012-08-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:35:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:35:59","slug":"monday-madness-links-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Monday Madness = Links For YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to extreme amounts of stuff that need to get done in my life (mostly a big revision of my next novel that is due Oct. 1, plus sundry and miscellaneous other items) today&#8217;s post is brought to you by Stuff On The Web I&#8217;ve Collected and Kept Around for Just Such an Occasion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogger Lucy Coats over at Scribble City Central is running a fun series called <a href=\"http:\/\/scribblecitycentral.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/sccs-z-of-fabulous-beasts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fantabulous Fridays A-Z<\/a>, which is, she reports, &#8220;a weekly series in which writers talk about one particular<br \/>\nbeast or being, and give some insights into how it&#8217;s had an impact on<br \/>\ntheir own writing.  So far I&#8217;m at J (Kevin Crossley-Holland, the eminent<br \/>\nBritish mythologist is talking today about J for Jormungand, the Midgard<br \/>\nSerpent of Norse myth). I&#8217;ve also had Julie Kagawa, Marcus Sedgwick and<br \/>\nJonathan Stroud on &#8211; and the series runs till end-December.&#8221; It&#8217;s pretty darn cool&#8211;I particularly enjoyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/scribblecitycentral.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/06\/fantabulous-fridays-z-f-for-faerie-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Herbie Brennan<\/a>, who writes the hilarious and madcap series Faerie Wars. <\/li>\n<li>Via the Expression Online SCBWI newsletter comes an article from Julia Eccleshare, the <i>Guardian<\/i>&#8216;s Children&#8217;s Book Doctor, addressing the question of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/childrens-books-site\/2012\/jul\/23\/book-doctor-trains-picture-books?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">why trains in books still go chuff-chuffing<\/a> along, even though we&#8217;re well past the age of steam. The answer: it isn&#8217;t just appealing to parental nostalgia&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, if you haven&#8217;t heard, registration for this fall&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidlitosphere.org\/kidlitcon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kidlitcon <\/a>is now open! It will take place Sept. 28 and 29 at the legendary NYPL in New York City, organized by Kidlitosphere icons <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.schoollibraryjournal.com\/afuse8production\/\" target=\"_blank\">Betsy Bird<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.schoollibraryjournal.com\/teacozy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liz B<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Edinger<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to extreme amounts of stuff that need to get done in my life (mostly a big revision of my next novel that is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}